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Page 99 of 1231910 · PDF PAGE 373
… night sortie, and will traverse the wilds of Wales. y. At the end of his resources among the Welsh mountains, he is compelled to put to death his only remaining child. By this sacrifice he saves the world of chivalry. vi. He having become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to Arthur’s court, bearing tidings of a Questing Beast, The knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. Lancelot findeth him upon Scawfell, clothed in his white beard. He returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, h…
1910 · PDF PAGE 373
… night sortie, and will traverse the wilds of Wales. y. At the end of his resources among the Welsh mountains, he is compelled to put to death his only remaining child. By this sacrifice he saves the world of chivalry. vi. He having become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to Arthur’s court, bearing tidings of a Questing Beast, The knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. Lancelot findeth him upon Scawfell, clothed in his white beard. He returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, h…
1919 · PDF PAGE 196
…ols are always true), yet we have out- grown this idea which is only apparently true in Nature. Since this great Ritual of Sacrifice and Death was conceived and perpetuated, we, through the observation of our men of science, have come to know that it is not the Sun which rises and sets, but the earth on which we live which revolves so that its shadow cuts us off from the sunlight during what we call night. The Sun does not die, as the ancients thought; It is always shining, always radiating Light and Life. Stop for a moment and get a clear conc…
1922 · PDF PAGE 173
…ent through a rather complicated gesture quite incomprehensible; but it vaguely suggested to me some ceremonial reverence connected with death. “‘T had the great good fortune to be adopted by this man; he taught me how to climb; in particular, how to glissade. He made me start down the slope from all kinds of complicated positions ; head first and so on; and I had to let myself slide without attempting to save myself until he gave the word, and then I had to recover myself and finish, either sitting or standing, as he chose, to swerve or to sto…
1954 · PDF PAGE 165
…all ye come to my joy. There is a veil, that veil is black. It is th(, veil of the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow, & the pall of death: this is none of me. Tear down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: these vices are my service; ye do well, & I will reward you here and hereafter. There is help and hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicac…
1954 · PDF PAGE 461
… and Royal Academicians painters." There is a highly popular school of "occultists" which is 99 percent an escape-mechanism. The fear of death is one of the bogeys; but far deeper is the root-fear-fear of being alone, of being oneself, of life itself. With this there goes the sense of guilt. The Book of the Law cuts directly at the root of all this calamitous, this infamous tissue of falsehood. What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realization of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty , Purity, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…venomous snakes, miasma, mosquitoes, fe- ver, filth, toil, jaundice, malaria, starvation, foul under- growth, weedy swamps breathing out death, hideous and bloated trees of poison, themselves already poi- soned by their earth, heat unendurable, insufferable, intolerable, unbearable (as the Daily Telegraph said at the time of the Dreyfus case), heat continuous and sti- fling, no breeze but the pestilential stench of the lagoon, heat that turned the skin into a raging sea of irritation to which the very stings of the mosquitoes and centipedes cam…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…t dis- turbance of the blood supply, and it goes out like a can- dle, or else takes monstrous forms. Here was the overwhelming truth; in death man lives again, and lives for ever. Yet we might have thought of it; the phantasmagoria of life which throng the mind of a drowning man might have suggested something of the sort to any man with a sympathetic and active imagination. Worse even than the thoughts themselves was the apprehension of the thoughts ere they arose. Carbun- cles, boils, ulcers, cancers, there is no equivalent for these pustules …
1907 · PDF PAGE 189
…dust. ORPHEUS. O iron, bow to silver’s piercing note |! O marble, see the shape of ivory! My justice fountains from a sweeter throat; My death is bound beyond eternity. O wise and just, hear ye the voice of man, Not seeking to involve in woven spells Or trickery the decree Tartarean, By words to blink that justice which is Hell’s!
1929 · PDF PAGE 195
…Hecate favour him above all men. Well, he had but to take the body upstairs. The old woman understood these things; he would certify the death; there would be no fuss made over a poor prostitute. He would return at once to London, and open up the negotiations with "A.B." [276]
1929 · PDF PAGE 506
…cynical disbelief with the soft honied superficial assurance of her rival: before I knew what I was doing, our duel had developed into a death struggle in which my hate and hopelessness strove to swamp themselves in a surge of amorous frenzy. The spasm swept me away. I no longer remember how we went out and dined, or how we got down to her house. Every nerve in my soul was screaming with implacable pain. Through it all I stuck to my guns; I never forgot that I loved the other woman and all that she stood for. But when at last exhaustion ended t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 353
…ture. Yet against all such ideas we could not help but hear the insistent voice of Haidee Lamoureux, that the end of all these things is death. She had deliberately renounced existence as futile, and there was no answer to her pleadings. Besides this, my mind had eaten up its pabulum. I had literally nothing to think of except heroin, and I discovered that heroin appealed to me behind all veils, as being an escape from life. A man who has once experienced the drug-life finds it difficult to put up with the inanity of normal existence. He has be…
1922 · PDF PAGE 20
…had been after all a rather happy animal in his way, just as the desperate god battling in the air, playing pitch and toss with life and death, had been happy. Neither of those men could be depressed by mis- fortune; but the prosperous young man about town was a much inferior creature. Everything more or less bored him, and he was quite definitely irritated by an overdone cutlet. The night I met Lou, I turned into the Café Wisteria in a sort of dull, angry stupor. Yet the only irritating incident of the day had been a letter from the lawyers wh…
1922 · PDF PAGE 32
…Yard.” Owen rose with alacrity. ‘‘T shall be delighted to see any of you others,” continued Lamus. ‘I should deplore it to the day of my death if I were the innocent means of breaking up so perfect a party.” _ The invitation sounded like an insult. I went red behind the ears; I could only just command myself enough to make a formal apology of some sort. As a matter of fact, there was a very curious reaction in the whole party. The German Jew got up at once— nobody else stirred. Rage boiled in my heart. I understood instantly what had taken plac…
1954 · PDF PAGE 148
…e poison of life. Fifty are the gates of understanding, and one hundred and six are the seasons thereof. And the name of every season is Death . (The Vision and the Voice, 14th Aethyr) And for his Work thereafter? So we enter the earth, and there is a veiled figure, in absolute darkness. Yet it is perfectly possible to see in it, so 1. I suppose that only a Magus could have heard this word.
1954 · PDF PAGE 445
…h necessitates the exposure of the skeleton! (E.g., the SUbconscious.) Hence "Hush!" it is the hiss of the snake, great Lord of Life and Death-(life? yes, the spermatozoon, child!) "Silence! Danger! There is a man somewhere about." The savage reaction. And, sure enough , Ish is the Hebrew for man. (Mankind is ADM, Adam, Sanskrit Admi , the Father and Mother conjoined . "Male and Female created They Man.") The S-gods are innumerable. Asar (Asi, Isis, is his female twin) Astarte , Ishtar or Ashtoreth , Set, Saturn , Shu, Zeus, (into whom the D in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 276
…), otherwise than by the acquisition of the "Magical Memory" -the memory of former lives. And this must evidently include that of former deaths. Indeed "Freudian forgetfulness" is very pertinacious on such themes; the shock of death makes it a matter of displaying the most formidable courage to go over in one's mind the incidents of previous deaths. You recall the Buddhist "Ten Impurities";-The Drowned Corpse, the Gnawed-by-wild-beasts-Corpse, and the rest. Magick (though I says it as shouldn't) gives a very full and elaborate account of this M…
1906 · PDF PAGE 117
… Greece Forget ! they are not there! By worship cometh not the Peace, The Silence not by prayer ! Leave the illusions, life and time And death, and seek that star sublime— Until the lotus and the sea And snake no longer are, And single through eternity Exists alone the Star, And utter Knowledge rise and cease In that which is beyond the Peace ! JASON. Those isles have faded : was this vision true? HERACLES, I know not what hath passed: I seem asleep Still, with the dream yet racing in my brain. THESEUS. There was a sweetness: whether sight or s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 279
… rescued the country . You must understand this if English History is to be at all intelligible to you. The tragedy began with the early death of the Black Prince; the second blow, that of Henry V coupled with the futility of his son and the murder of Prince Edward at Tewkesbury.) Well, that was a big laugh, of course; it tended to discredit the whole theory of Reincarnation . Quite unnecessarily, if one looks a little deeper. What do I mean when I say that I think I was Eliphaz Levi? No more than that I possess some of his most essential chara…
1954 · PDF PAGE 178
…e be subtlety therein! But exceed! exceed! Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine-and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous!-death is the crown of all. The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict with the rules of Yoga. That kind of suppression is comparable to the restrictions in athletic training, or diet in sickness. Now we get back to the Qabalah-how to make use of it. Let us suppose that you have been making an invocation, or shall w…